Just to show you things aren’t different in Europe, Qurius, a large Dynamics reseller operating in several countries, reported a dramatic drop in earnings as sales declined for its quarter ended June 30. The net result (as termed there) fell to about $254,000, down 79 percent as measured in euros. Sales dropped to roughly $50.2 million, off 5.9 percent from a year earlier. About 44 percent of sales were in the Netherlands. The company said it is reducing subcontractor costs, jobs and other expenses, but didn’t break out details.

Refugees from the MIS Group are contributing to a realignment of the channel in Texas. Besides the Rand Group picking up seven former MIS employees including Don Zelesny, who led the MIS Group's CPA program., MicroAccounting Solutions, which had been purchased (well a couple of times) and ended up with the MIS Group, has reformed under Bill and Lorrie Harris with its headquarters in Dallas. Three former members of Burch Consultants, including Randy Burch, have joined BCS/ProSoft, which is going after former Burch clients. Blytheco hired several former MIS employees and expanded offices in Dallas, Houston and Austin.

Sales-and-use-tax vendor Avalara has hired Anthony Zuanich as executive director of channel sales. He was most recently sales EVP at rival SpeedTax. Zuanich joined Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based Avalara at the end of July. His resume including working as executive director of business processing outsourcing sales for Accenture and he was a sales manager at ADP. Avalara said his job will be building relationships with large resellers. And in July, Avalara named Blytheco, Sage’s perennial award winner, as its annual Business Partner of the Year.

Let’s not bore you with details, but when my profile wouldn’t load on my desktop computer, I called Dell tech support. After handing off control via Go-to-Assist, the tech rep informed me he was going to do a Restore on the computer, going back in time to some time the day before. He and the screen assured me that no files would be affected. After starting that process, the rep called my house to see how things were going. “Everything’s back to normal?” he asked warmly. “Well, no, some of the folders are in the wrong order. Some are missing. And you know what; I can’t find a single Word, Excel or JPEG file.” Fortunately, after years of sitting through talks about backup, I had gone into the computer under my wife’s profile and did a backup using Clickfree before calling tech support. I made the rep stay on the telephone line for about 30 minutes as the device restored the data files and that they actually were intact. The only problem I’ve discovered is it didn’t backup the hand ful of Access files, but I had recent copies of those on my laptop. I could have destroyed my data, backed it up and saved $129. But you know, us amateurs should leave this stuff to the pros.

The Editor

Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community with his email newsletters for 10 years. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 18 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant.

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